Question : The size of Varun Ltd. has increased. It was a market leader, but as the business environment changed and MNCs entered the industry, its market share shrank. The CEO begins to distribute part of his authority to the General Manager in order to deal with the problem. The General Manager, who also felt overworked, did so with the CEO's agreement and distributed some of his authority to various levels inside the organisation. Name the managerial idea that was mentioned above.

Option 1: Authority

Option 2: Responsibility

Option 3: Delegation

Option 4: Decentralisation

Question : Comprehension:
Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

As the world's population approaches 8 billion and resource use intensifies, pollution is becoming more extensive, pervasive, and persistent. It affects our health through the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe. By 2025, the world's cities will produce 2.2 billion metric tonnes of waste every year, more than three times the amount produced in 2009. That said, pollution is not a new phenomenon and is largely controllable and often avoidable, as shown in some countries and cities that have succeeded in decoupling economic growth from pollution and waste accumulation.

With the end goal of eradicating all forms of pollution by 2030, the UN Environment Programme was tasked by the UN Environment Assembly to coordinate the implementation of a global plan reiterating that pollution is not only an environmental priority, it's a priority for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Question:
Which of the following most accurately states the central idea of the passage?

Option 1: United Nations

Option 2: Pollution-free planet

Option 3: Population explosion

Option 4: Economic growth

Question : Comprehension:
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

When it's your idea, you want to (1) ______ about it all the time. I've had this problem on more than a few occasions now. I know there shouldn't be any shame in (2) ______ your work, but it's such a task to draw the line. In my case, since my work is all things related to social media, this problem gets even (3) ______ convoluted. Long story short, I hate that I (4) ______ have to worry about when it's okay to promote, and when it's (5) ______

Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 4.

Option 1: occasionally

Option 2: constantly

Option 3: rarely

Option 4: never

Question : Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the question of where and when the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic ever, originated is one of the biggest mysteries in human history. After all, the Black Death was the first wave of the second plague pandemic of the 14th to early 19th centuries. It killed some 50-60% of the population in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa and an unaccountable number of people in Central Asia. Different proposals, based on competing theories, have been put forward. But in 2017, I came across some records describing an intriguing medieval cemetery in Kara-Djigach, Chüy Valley, northern Kyrgyzstan, which I suspected may hold the key. As part of a multidisciplinary team co-led by Maria Spyrou at the University of Tubingen, we have now investigated several specimens from individuals buried at that site – and come up with an answer. The idea that the Black Death originated in the east – territories overlapping, roughly speaking, Central Asia, Mongolia and China – dates back to the contemporaries of the pandemic in Europe and the Islamic world. The modern, academic Chinese origin theory dates back to at least 1756-8 and a publication about the history of Central Asia by French scholar Joseph de Guignes.
How does the passage describe the Black Death?

Option 1: The first wave of the second plague pandemic

Option 2: The worst specimen of human created tragedy

Option 3: The specimen of human evolution and its evidence

Option 4: The initiator of all the future pandemics

Question : Direction: Given below is a short passage followed by some items based on the passage. First, read the passage and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author only.

More than eight months after the national lockdown was announced in late March, urban India is learning to live with the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, indicating a positive outlook for the future, many survey respondents in a recent survey say they plan to return to pre-lockdown levels of shopping, personal grooming, going to cinemas and socializing as pandemic fears continue to recede.
The survey findings highlight that the suppression of consumer demand because of fears of job losses and salary cuts could be coming to an end. Increasingly, urban Indians are showing increased confidence about the future of the economy. This could be an indicator of the possible 'pent-up demand' that several economists have been talking about - a demand that could be unleashed once a vaccine is developed and distributed, or when there are signs of the pandemic's spread reducing to negligible levels or vanishing totally.

Around 65 per cent of respondents said they had settled into new routines, or that they saw signs of the situation improving, or they had come to terms with the pandemic and were moving on with their lives. And since the survey was conducted before the news of the successful trials of the Pfizer vaccine for the coronavirus was announced, it is likely that the consumers are now even more positive in their outlook about the future.

Question:Question:Question:
Which one of the following is the central idea of the passage?
 

Option 1:  Economic survey
 

Option 2: Development of Covid-19 vaccine
 

Option 3: Suppression of  demand
 

Option 4: None of these

Question : Comprehension:

In the following passage, some of the words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Today I have a college admission interview with a Yale alum. Yale is the second-best school, but for once, I put my foot down and (1)____________ to apply to the best school (Harvard). The idea of (2)___________ Charlie's younger brother at another school is a bridge entirely too far. Besides, (3)__________ knows if Harvard would even take me now that Charlie's been suspended. My mom and (4)_____________are in the kitchen. Because of my interview, she's steaming frozen mandu (dumplings) for me as a treat. I am having a pre-mandu appetiser of Cap'n Crunch (the best cereal known to mankind) and (5)__________ in my Moleskine notebook.

Question:

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 1.

Option 1: refused

Option 2: rejoiced

Option 3: dwelled

Option 4: levelled

Question : Read the passage and answer the following questions.
All great thinkers live and move on a high plane of thought. It is only there they can breathe freely. it is only in contact with spirits like themselves they can live harmoniously and attain that serenity which comes from ideal companionship. The studies of all great thinkers must range along the highest altitudes of human thoughts' have always thought that the strongest argument in favor of the Baconian theory was, that no man, however indubitable his genius, could have written the plays and sonnets that have come down to us under Shakespeare's own name who had not the liberal education of Bacon. The magnificent ideals that have ever haunted of though the human mind and given us our highest proofs of future immortality by reason of the impossibility of their fulfillment here are splintered into atoms by contact with life's realities. Hence Comes our sublime discontent's habitual mediation on the vast problems that underline human life and are knit into human destinies-thoughts of immortality, of the littleness to the mere man, of the greatness of man' soul, of the splendors of the universe that are invisible to the ordinary traffickers in the street, as the vastness of St. Peter's is to the spider that weaves her web in a corner of the dome-these things do not fir men to understand the arrange humanity is easy to understand, therefore, Why such thinkers fly to the solitude of their own thoughts, or he the silent companionship of the immortals and if they care to present their verse to the world that these views take a somber and melancholy setting from "the pale cast of thought" in which they were engendered.

Question:

Who is the one in the constant search behind the crucial idea of immortality?

Option 1: Ordinary Speculator
 

Option 2: Great Thinkers
 

Option 3: Person who has surrendered himself to god.

Option 4: Scientists

Question :

Select the phrase/connector from the given options to form a single sentence from the two sentences given below, implying the same meaning as expressed in the statement sentences

It was a bad idea. It was not risk-free.

Option 1: It was a bad idea but it was not risk-free

Option 2:

It was a bad idea and it was not risk-free

Option 3:

It was a bad idea with it was not risk-free

Option 4:

It was a bad idea despite being risk-free

Option 5:

It was a bad idea yet it was not risk-free

Question : People of ______ have hardly any idea of extremes of temperature and the seasonal rhythm of weather.

Option 1: Indore

Option 2: Mumbai

Option 3: Jaisalmer

Option 4: Lucknow